Dealing with a Crashed Application or Operating System

Even though Windows XP is fairly immune to crashing, the applications that run on it are not necessarily so robust. Not to be cynical, but many IS professionals don’t consider any version of Windows worth their trouble until version 2 or a couple of service packs hit the streets, because they know bugs tend to be prevalent in first-release software. With an operating system as complex as Windows XP, we bet there are a few gotchas lurking.